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| 1927 births | |
| carter, martin | |
| 1997 deaths | |
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His collection ''Poems of Resistance'', published in 1954 by International Publishers in New York established his reputation as a powerful moral and political voice. In the late 1950s he broke with the PPP and became active in the People's National Congress of Forbes Burnham , serving in PNC governments as minister of information from 1964 to 1970 . In the late 1970's he was a supporter of the Working People's Alliance of Eusi Kwayana and Walter Rodney . Long seen as primarily a poet who touched on themes of politics, resistance, and protest, his later poems were often highly personal. He is best known, however, for a powerful protest poem of the 1960s , "I come from the nigger yard of yesterday." At the Live From Lincoln Center jazz concert for the victims of Hurricane Katrina , Danny Glover quoted some lines of Carter's, bringing him to public attention in North America for the first time in the twenty-first century. EXTERNAL LINKS |